A late masterpiece by British Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner, executed as a pair to Shade and Darkness – the Evening of the Deluge. Inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Theory of Colours, Turner utilizes a dynamic, vortex-like circular composition and a dominant golden-yellow palette (associated in Goethe's theory with the "plus" side of light, joy, and warmth). The work symbolizes divine salvation and hope following the cataclysm of the Flood, with the central figure of Moses writing Genesis accompanied by the Brazen Serpent.